transitive verb. To drive back; repel.

transitive verb. To rebuff or reject with rudeness, coldness, or denial.

transitive verb. To cause repugnance or distaste in.

noun. The act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.

noun. Rejection; refusal.

To beat or drive back; repel: as, to repulse an assailant or advancing enemy.

To refuse; reject.

noun. The act of repelling or driving back.

noun. The condition of being repelled; the state of being checked in advancing, or driven back by force.

noun. Refusal; denial.

noun. The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.

noun. Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.

transitive verb. To repel; to beat or drive back

transitive verb. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away.

verb. to repel or drive back

verb. to reject or rebuff

verb. to cause revulsion

noun. the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed

noun. refusal, rejection or repulsion

verb. be repellent to; cause aversion in

noun. an instance of driving away or warding off

verb. cause to move back by force or influence

verb. force or drive back

"Now and then, volleys of musketry, or a repulse from the Southern batteries on the heights, filled the blue morning sky with belching scarlet flame and smoke: through all, however, the long train of army-wagons passed over the pontoon-bridge, bearing the wounded."

repel  repellent  repulsion  repulsive  

defend  fight  fight back  fight down  force  

Hulse  dulce  impulse  pulse  

affray  affront  capitulation  defeat  defection  

abjuration  abjure  abjurement  backfire  backlash  

repulsed  repulses  repulsing